"You Must Not Prophesy to Us What is Right" (7/22)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from Isaiah 28-30. God told Isaiah that he must prophesy to the people, even though they would not listen. He also explained why it was important to tell them anyway. “Now go, write it on a tablet before them and inscribe it on a scroll, that it may serve in […]

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Where is Your King that He May Save You? (7/21)

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Thought from today’s Bible reading from Hosea 8-14. “It is your destruction, O Israel, that you are against Me, against your help. Where now is your king that he may save you in all your cities, and your judges of whom you requested, ‘Give me a king and princes?’ I gave you a king in […]

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Loyalty Rather Than Sacrifice (7/20)

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Thought from today’s Bible reading from Hosea 1-7. “What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning cloud and like the dew which goes away early. Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets; I have slain them by […]

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He Broke in Pieces the Bronze Serpent (7/19)

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Thought from today’s Bible reading from 2 Kings 18:1-8; 2 Chronicles 29-31; Psalm 48. Hezekiah was one of the righteous kings of Judah. He did something interesting as he attempted to purge the land of sin. “He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done. He […]

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“These Who Have Turned the World Upside Down”

Paul preaching in Thessalonica

After just a few weeks of Paul preaching in Thessalonica, the gospel had been received by some of the Jews and “a large number of the God-fearing Greeks and a number of the leading women” (Acts 17:1-4). In an effort to try to silence this message, the Jews intended to capture Paul and Silas. When […]

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He Casts Down the Unassailable City (7/18)

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Thought from today’s Bible reading from Isaiah 23-27. The following passage speaks of God’s judgment against the mighty Babylon, reminding us of the need to trust in the Lord. “Trust in the Lord forever, for in God the Lord, we have an everlasting Rock. For He has brought low the unassailable city; He lays it […]

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“Let Us Eat and Drink, For Tomorrow We May Die” (7/17)

Daily Notes & Observations

Thought from today’s Bible reading from Isaiah 18-22. Judgment was coming against the people of God. Yet instead of this warning being met with careful self-examination and repentance, the people ignored it and acted as if nothing was wrong and nothing would happen. “Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to […]

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